iVisit Turns Mobile Camera Phone into Eye for the Blind
May 21, 2009
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As reported on MedGadget, iVisit, a California company that specializes in video teleconferencing applications, has teamed up with the National Institutes of Health to turn a mobile phone’s camera into an eye for the blind. Using advanced image recognition software to identify what is in front of the phone, the system reads off what it is seeing. Click here to see a video demonstration.
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